Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the changes in a back-to-school post on Wednesday. The headli…
Sometimes the most genuine projects emerge from gaps we identify in our own lives or in the society around us. And maybe this should be our focus as a society: to use all the technology at our disposal to solve problems that were almost impossible to a…
UK edtech startup Medly AI has raised$8 million in seed funding to expand its AI-powered exam preparation platformin the UK and international markets. The round was led by Felix Capital, withparticipa…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company’s age-prediction system estimates is under 1…
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being clo…
The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. Kaitlyn Huamani, who covers social media and interne…
Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at all. She made the case on the science podcast Huber…
The boos at last spring’s graduations suggested a student revolt against AI. The data points the other way. Among business students at one Washington school, regular AI use has quietly become the norm, and the loudest demand is not to ban it but to tea…
Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Wil.i.am.
Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but per…